Live action Jetsons movie

[stj]

There's something intimate about The Honeymooners that doesn't really fit the movie length format. And though I don't think it shows very much since both The Flintstones and The Jetson enjoy their gadget gags, the backdrops in both animated series are pretty sketchy. The stage set for The Honeymooners was more suggestive than fully realized, too. I think the costs of elaborate sets for an old variety show or Hanna-Barbera's cheap production values inadvertently helped universalize The Honeymooners. The thing is, I believe a live action movie will bring the bare sets forward and make it look wrong. This is especially true since the gadgets are jokes or camp. I don't think it can work.

 

[Nathan_Heller]

Twenty years ago or so a live-action Jetson movie was planned to star Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn. Like many films it never got produced.

 

[Aragorn]

Will Ferrell? Does George Jetson strike you as an overgrown manchild with an overinflated ego, no common sense and the broadest humor possible? Because that's what Ferrell plays over and over and over again.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

It wouldn't be very Jetsons-y, but I'd love to see a serious, fairly realistic (though still humorous) look at a future society that has all the whiz-bang stuff we thought we were supposed to have by 2010: robot maids, sky cities on stilts, flying cars and all the rest. They should set it in the year 2010 (or whatever year the movie comes out) as an alternate reality.

George: Tom Hanks
Jane: Felicity Huffman

They're almost twenty years too old, George and Jane were supposed to be in their mid to late 30s. Tom Hanks is 54, kind of old to be playing a mid level button-pusher with a 16 and a 7 year old.

Okay, then I approve of these:

George - Alan Tudyk
Jane - Molly Ringwald

 

[scotpens]

There's something intimate about The Honeymooners that doesn't really fit the movie length format. And though I don't think it shows very much since both The Flintstones and The Jetson enjoy their gadget gags, the backdrops in both animated series are pretty sketchy. The stage set for The Honeymooners was more suggestive than fully realized, too. I think the costs of elaborate sets for an old variety show or Hanna-Barbera's cheap production values inadvertently helped universalize The Honeymooners. The thing is, I believe a live action movie will bring the bare sets forward and make it look wrong. This is especially true since the gadgets are jokes or camp. I don't think it can work.

The 1994 live-action Flintstones movie did a pretty good job of fleshing out the backdrops and the community of Bedrock, though at the expense of losing some of the sketchy cartoon charm of Hanna-Barbera's creation. John Goodman, of course, was perfectly cast as Fred. He looks so much like Fred Flintstone that it's quite possible they were separated at birth.

 

[Owain Taggart]

There's something intimate about The Honeymooners that doesn't really fit the movie length format. And though I don't think it shows very much since both The Flintstones and The Jetson enjoy their gadget gags, the backdrops in both animated series are pretty sketchy. The stage set for The Honeymooners was more suggestive than fully realized, too. I think the costs of elaborate sets for an old variety show or Hanna-Barbera's cheap production values inadvertently helped universalize The Honeymooners. The thing is, I believe a live action movie will bring the bare sets forward and make it look wrong. This is especially true since the gadgets are jokes or camp. I don't think it can work.

The 1994 live-action Flintstones movie did a pretty good job of fleshing out the backdrops and the community of Bedrock, though at the expense of losing some of the sketchy cartoon charm of Hanna-Barbera's creation. John Goodman, of course, was perfectly cast as Fred. He looks so much like Fred Flintstone that it's quite possible they were separated at birth.

Yeah, and then the sequel made so many bad decisions such as someone different as Fred. There wasn't really any charm in it.

And actually, if Get Smart is any indication since that show relied on so many gags, the movie was pretty good. So, it can work.

I'm puzzled though. What does The Honeymooners have to do with a cartoon show? It was always live action.

 

[Greg Cox]

They've been talking about this for decades. At one point, it was going to star Chevy Chase . . . .

 

[Captaindemotion]

Casting is one thing but they'd also need a pretty good script. I mean, it's hard to envisage a more perfect live-action Fred Flintstone than John Goodman, but that movie still sucked T-rex balls.

 

[stj]

I'm puzzled though. What does The Honeymooners have to do with a cartoon show? It was always live action.

Many sitcoms, including the animated sitcoms The Flintstones and The Jetsons, are essentially The Honeymooners. The Jetsons being the later iteration of the basic premise uses Rosie and Henry instead of the Rubbles. But the Rubbles were barely disguised copies of the Nortons.

But I can't claim any special insight on this one, it was common knowledge amongst the adults when The Flintstones premiered in 1960 in prime time, no less. The Honeymooners hadn't been gone very long.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Oh, I see. You were comparing them as sitcoms. Yeah, I suppose that works. I didn't think of it that way.

 

[DWF]

Since nobody's said it yet. Jane!, Stop this crazy thing!

 

[Forbin]

Will Ferrell would be all over this!

Then I will be nowhere near it.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Will Ferrell would be all over this!

Then I will be nowhere near it.

Yeah, same here. I can't stand most of his stuff. As far as I'm concerned, the only time he's really been acting was in Stranger than Fiction.

 

[kkozoriz1]

Rosie the Robot Maid: Everything must be clean. Very clean. That's why the dog had to die. He was a dirty dog. Dirty. Dirty. Also that boy Elroy. Dirty. Dirty.

I'd watch it

 

[Kira Nerys]

I think it would be too corny ,even though I loved the Jetsons as a child .